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John Wray

John Wray
John Wray is the author of Godsend, The Lost Time Accidents, Lowboy, Canaan’s Tongue, and The Right Hand of Sleep, and has written about music for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Spin. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, he was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists in 2007.


John Wray on the One Book That Has Helped Him Become a Better Writer

“I’m talking about an unassuming trade paperback, published a few decades back, with a deceptively un-sexy title.”
May 12, 2023  By John Wray
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When You Discover You’re a Character in Someone Else’s Novel

John Wray on the Anxiety of Reading About "John Wray"
October 9, 2018  By John Wray
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